The Music

The Dungiven Fleadh Uladh committee are delighted this year to honour Sam Henry’s famous traditional singing anthology Songs of the People in a unique concert as part of Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Éireann’s 51st Ulster Fleadh.

The Comhaltas Archive Online has recently added the Comhaltas Sound Publications collections, including the Comhaltas LPs produced from the late 1960s through to the 1990s. There are some great solo albums, such as the one of Johnny Doherty, and also recordings from céilí bands, Comhaltas concert tours, singers and players
from all over Ireland.

Singer Seán Ó Sé from Cork headed up the exciting 2008 Irish Traditional Concert Tour of North America. The Comhaltas group, which included some of the top Irish traditional musicians, singers and dancers, visited nine North American venues during the two week October Concert Tour.

I figured I’d post some more working tracks from the Foinn Seisiún 3 CD, meant to accompany our tunebook. This is Volume 3 in the “Foinn Seisiún” series of session sets (available to buy online). So here you go!

We’ve had some requests lately to support downloading our daily ComhaltasLive videos. While the video files themselves are quite large and not practical for downloading, I’ve set up the audio for each programme or segment to be downloaded or played directly, which should better support visitors with dial-up internet access.